*Mike Tyson reflected on his past as a heavy drinker and how alcohol negatively affected his behavior during the premiere episode of the “Confidence of Champions” podcast. The former boxing champion discussed a period when he paused smoking weed, revealing that his family urged him to resume.
“When I’m drunk, I’m f*cking making a fool of myself,” he said, perComplex. “Listen, you get a bunch of gang members, right? You get a bunch of liquor, they’re going to kill each other. You get some weed, they start taking selfies. … That was the peace pipe, that’s why the Native Americans used it.”
Tyson recounted a time when he refrained from smoking for five days. “My wife and my kids would get scared,” he said. “‘Please smoke, Daddy.’ Not that I did anything, [I was just] too intense not high. People walking by me, just looking, ‘Wow.’ It’s just a whole different person.”
On a 2024 episode of his podcast “Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson,” he disclosed that he can spend as much as $40,000 a month on weed.
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In a 2019 interview with Joe Rogan, Tyson explained the personal impact of smoking, noting, “If I didn’t smoke, I would have a bad day. I’m a real moody guy without it. It smooths me out, like I’m a whole different person. It makes me on top of my game. … I like who I am when I smoke. Without weed, I don’t like who I am sometimes.”
Tyson previously disclosed that, as a child, his mother would give him alcohol and marijuana at the age of 10 to get him to go to bed.
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